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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Goodbye to Classic CoF...for now.

"Say goodbye on a night like this..." After 13 years of hosting the Classic CoF website, Compuserve is pulling the plug on their Ourworld publishing and hosting servers, starting sometime tonight/tomorrow/soon, and the old CoF website will be gone from the net. But you will still be able to access much of it via the Internet Wayback Machine, and I will put the entire site up again, once I find a new home for it, but that might be a while. So thank you to Compuserve and everyone who contributed to CoF, read it, enjoyed it, and found help & info on it, over the last 13 years. It was a blast! Most of the time. ; ) Goodbye old friend, you served us well. : )

Update: Just to be absolutely clear, the only thing going away (and not for too long, everything has been saved locally, and will be uploaded to a new home soon-ish) is the old CoF site. This one will still be here and will be updated all of the time, just as it has been for the last year and a half.

OMG - A life without classic CoF, what a wacky world! Craig, I cannot imagine my life without CoF, Blogger, you and my Cure peeps. Thanks for EVERYTHING you have done for the Cure fans. Love ya work! Long live CoF blogger!

A duck walks into a pharmaceutical store. He waddles over to the cashier and says, "excuse me, I would like some lip balm". The cashier says, "why certainly sir, will you be paying with cash or credit?" With that the duck replies, "that's alright, just put it on my bill"

I first ran into that site around 2000 or so, when I started to get on the net heavily. You did an amazing job with it, Craig, and I'm sure you will continue to do so. In any case, the blog has become the main place for your news, but whenever I'd refresh my browser, I'd have to head over to the easy to remember "chainofflowers.com" just to find my way back here.

Thanks again for all your work, Craig, and also to everyone else who uploads stuff and makes it a friendly place.

Thank you! I'll miss you. I've been following www.chainofflowers.com for almost 5 years! I admire your courage how you managed to put it all up again after Cathrina disaster.. And recently (last couple of years) I entered even on daily basis. You are great!!! I hope you'll have time, will and energy to continue later somewhere else with it!!!! Thank you, CraigYou were great!

I'm really sorry to hear about the classsic CoF site going down. I'm sure you know how much the site means to soo many of us. I know you'll have it up again in some form but Its still kinda sad to know the original site will be gone. Anyway Craig thank you very much for all the work you put into this.

As I can see, it look like a it's a 60MB website ?If you want I can archive it on my site, just let me know that it is Ok. If you had not reply before august 2009, I'll understand that you didn't want www.TheCure.ca to host it.

Sigh...I miss it already. But it will be back. Just not right now. Have to work out the issues surrounding the Chainofflowers.com domain name. It's a bit complicated. But once that is sorted, I'll find a new home for it, and it will up and running again.